CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  I encountered this lovely little female tawny mining bee Andrena fulva , provisioning her newly-excavated nest tunnel with pollen, on the ...

If I was a fastidious gardener I'd probably have dug out the dandelions in our garden long before now because ...

Last year we had a wasp nest under the eaves of our house, so that may be why this bee moth found its wa...

Bees' wings suffer a lot of wear and tear during their brief lives and as they fly through the vegetation their beating wing tips often ...

Last week I visited a wonderful wildlife garden near Bristol where the owners had been extremely successful in developing colonies of red m...

When we were in Newcastle today we came across this group of beekeepers learning their trade underneath Byker bridge at the Ouseburn...

Most flowers discretely dust their pollen on visiting insects, but orchids go the whole hog and glue their entire stamens to their visitor...

Newly-opened horse chestnut flowers have a yellow spot on the petals, that turns red once the flower is pollinated. More than half the flowe...